David Henry Hwang's beautiful, heartrending play featuring an
afterword by the author - winner of a 1988 Tony Award for Best Play
and nominated for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize
Based on a true story that stunned the world, "M. Butterfly"
opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard is
being held captive by the French government--and by his own
illusions. In the darkness of his cell he recalls a time when
desire seemed to give him wings. A time when Song Liling, the
beautiful Chinese diva, touched him with a love as vivid, as
seductive--and as elusive--as a butterfly.
How could he have known, then, that his ideal woman was, in
fact, a spy for the Chinese government--and a man disguised as a
woman? In a series of flashbacks, the diplomat relives the
twenty-year affair from the temptation to the seduction, from its
consummation to the scandal that ultimately consumed them both. But
in the end, there remains only one truth: Whether or not
Gallimard's passion was a flight of fancy, it sparked the most
vigorous emotions of his life.
Only in real life could love become so unreal. And only in such
a dramatic tour de force do we learn how a fantasy can become a
man's mistress--as well as his jailer. "M. Butterfly "is one of the
most compelling, explosive, and slyly humorous dramas ever to light
the Broadway stage, a work of unrivaled brilliance, illuminating
the conflict between men and women, the differences between East
and West, racial stereotypes--and the shadows we cast around our
most cherished illusions.
"M. Butterfly" remains one of the most influential romantic
plays of contemporary literature, and in 1993 was made into a film
by David Cronenberg starring Jeremy Irons and John Lone.
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